Afghan officials call conditions for cooperation with Taliban

The Afghan authorities are ready to cooperate with the Taliban * movement (banned in Russia as a terrorist movement), but under certain conditions. This was stated by Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar.

In an interview with "News" he explained that the government of the country is ready to conclude peace with the Taliban under one, but important condition - a refusal to support terrorism. According to the Afghan minister, Afghanistan should not pose a threat to any country in the world, and internal affairs should be decided by the will of the Afghan people.

We are ready to work with the Taliban *, we are ready to take them into the government, we are ready for peace with them and the division of power with them. (...) Our government is ready to accept the Taliban * as part of it on the condition that they stop supporting terrorism

- stated Hanif Atmar

Meanwhile, the Taliban have promised a quick death to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. According to the movement's statement, Ghani's time has expired and will be done away with. According to Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the movement is waging a just war against national traitors and will bring it to an end.

Ghani, in turn, accused the Taliban * of brutality and lack of desire for peace. The Afghan president stressed that the Taliban are not seeking negotiations, trying to change the situation in the country in order to speak from a position of strength.

Meanwhile, fighting between government forces and the Taliban continues in the country's fifteen provinces. Particularly violent clashes take place in the province of Herat, where the militants are trying to take the city of the same name, which is the administrative center. In addition, the Taliban are not abandoning their attempts to take Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, in which their target is the local prison.

Comments

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Dear VO editors, please put a comment under the photo. And then so many thoughts arise when watching, I'm sure all of them are not very correct for me.

[KAV]

Our government is ready to accept the Taliban * as part of it

That is, surrender? IMHO, such statements are made before defeat, such as a broad gesture ... Only now, the Taliban need not a part, but the entire government.

[Shurik70]

It was necessary first to capture half of the country, so that the remaining half cried out that they were ready for equal cooperation.

[Catfish]

What's the catch, Colleague?

Afghanistan flag.

Taliban flag.

[Finches]

What a brave official Hanif Atmar, but still someone tell him that the Americans have already left the country ...!

[NDR-791]

Quote: Cat Alexandrovich

Dear VO editors, please put a comment under the photo.

"The local population welcomes the Taliban liberators with delight" ???

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Thanks, I thought so, but I wasn't sure.

[hrych]

Those. the Taliban is ready to do the pier a favor. And the Taliban promised to make the borrowers an ax-head. Equivalent offer

[Egoza]

An interesting ratio: the Afghan government is ready to cooperate with the Taliban, the Taliban are eager to destroy the president! So maybe they will come to the conclusion that you just need to replace the president and everyone will calm down? I don't like this juxtaposition: the government - the president. It seems that negotiations are already underway behind the president's back. Well, the president will be removed. Where are the guarantees that the Taliban will calm down? No answer. And the blood still flows like a river

[TermNachTer]

According to the latest information, the Taliban have already taken Lashkar Gah. There are battles in Herat and Kandahar. So, as the unforgettable Ostap Ibrahimovich used to say: "Bargaining is not appropriate here"))) the Kabul sixes are trying to put on a good face when they play badly.

[vargo]

Moreover, when the government had the power, it somehow was in no hurry to negotiate with the Taliban. And now they suddenly wanted peace. From the principle, in place of the Taliban, I would have fought so that the government would forget its importance, and would communicate with the underdogs from a position of strength. It's too late. Now their fate is in the hands of those whom they underestimated.
In general, I think everything is under complete control there, preparations are already underway to legitimize the Taliban, and to form a diplomat. relationships. Everyone needs stability there, even under the Taliban. These are quite negotiable when necessary

[rocket757]

Afghan officials call conditions for cooperation with Taliban

... Trying to negotiate?
You can look at it ... just look.

[Million]

I thought, if there is no Afghanistan on Earth, the world will lose something?

[grassyknollgunner]

No negotiations with the pro-American junta! Only unconditional surrender!

[Daria33]

Of course, I am not an expert, but, in my opinion, the Afghan authorities are now in no position to set conditions ...

[Suraikin.Aleksandr]

Reading even the official Russian press on the situation in Afghanistan, I increasingly begin to face criticism of Russia's foreign policy towards Afghanistan and, in particular, Zamir Kabulov, who is responsible for relations with Afghanistan. Who is directly called a Taliban lawyer and who sabotages relations with official Kabul!
The fact that a pro-American government is sitting in Kabul does not prevent the neighbors of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, including the now anti-American China and Iran (and even Pakistan), from establishing ties with the Taliban and the official government of Afghanistan in their own interests.

Despite all the mantras and dances of the Taliban about the inadmissibility of the intervention of external forces and the camp in the inside of the Afghan showdown and the promise to break ties with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, to become a purely national force, it turned out to be nothing more than an outright lie!
It is no longer a secret for anyone that the success of the Taliban's summer offensive is due to the fact that Pakistani intelligence drove all of their jihadists into Afghanistan!

In any case, it is in the interests of Russia, even if the Taliban agree with the official Kabul, to prevent the Taliban from settling in the northern regions of Afghanistan on the border with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan!